Arts News
Listed: The Many Faces of Nelson MandelaSaturday, 14 December 2013Nelson Mandela had a nose for the dramatic gesture. The evidence is there in his speech at the... Read more... |
Listed: The 10 Most Tasteless Album CoversSaturday, 07 December 2013OK, R Kelly is gross. We knew that. The number of deeply creepy and abusive acts he's been accused... Read more... |
Listed: Television's long-runnersSaturday, 30 November 2013In the past weeks there has been a frenzy of publicity about the timelessness of a Time Lord.... Read more... |
Listed: Who shot/staged/fictionalised JFK?Saturday, 16 November 2013On 22 November 1963 President John F Kennedy was shot, yoking his name to an ex-marine and sometime... Read more... |
Listed: The Best of Joni MitchellSaturday, 09 November 2013Of all the rock pantheon, Joni is the one who has evaded definition and over-determination better... Read more... |
Listed: Nights to remember at the National TheatreSaturday, 02 November 2013The National Theatre tonight hosts its 50th-birthday gala, 11 days after the English-speaking... Read more... |
Listed: Linda Thompson's Top 10 Traditional SongsSunday, 20 October 2013"I’m up to my ass in traditional songs," Linda Thompson says in the extensive Q&A published... Read more... |
Listed: Jane Austen providesTuesday, 24 September 2013Right at the start of the boom around 20 years ago, a Hollywood mogul is said to have told one of... Read more... |
Listed: The 20 best movie songsSunday, 15 September 2013Seeing and hearing A Field in England's Richard Glover sing "Baloo, My Boy" while in bedraggled... Read more... |
Listed: Freudian AnalysisSaturday, 31 August 2013Hysteria is back. Terry Johnson’s comedy was written for the Royal Court in 1993, and for its 20th... Read more... |
Listed: Screen BastardsSaturday, 24 August 2013John Lennon once said, "You have to be a bastard to make it. That's a fact. And the Beatles were... Read more... |
Listed: Poems inspired by paintingsSunday, 18 August 2013Poetry has always inspired artists. Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Dante’s Divine Comedy are two of the... Read more... |
Listed: Sitcoms that became moviesSaturday, 10 August 2013This week sees the release of the eagerly anticipated Alan Partridge film, Alpha Papa. And while... Read more... |
Listed: Female buddy crimebustersSaturday, 27 July 2013There's good cops and bad cops, hard cops and soft cops, old cops and young cops, funny cops and... Read more... |
Listed: International pop-disco hitsSaturday, 20 July 2013As someone detached from pop music (more a world, classical, jazz kind of guy) I conducted an... Read more... |
Listed: Pop tributes to pop iconsSunday, 14 July 2013Leonard Cohen sang, somewhat indiscreetly, about Janis Joplin “giving head” on his unmade bed, Bob... Read more... |
Listed: WhistleblowersSaturday, 06 July 2013Even now, as Edward Snowden floats in the diplomatic neverwhere of Sheremetyevo airport, someone... Read more... |
Listed: Actors playing themselvesSaturday, 29 June 2013Imagine a scenario in which Daniel Day Lewis is cast as himself. To get into character, he adopts... Read more... |
The best and worst national anthems? Time to award the medalsSunday, 15 April 2012The onerous task of recording all 205 national anthems for playing at the Olympics medal ceremonies... Read more... |
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